Are we at war with Iran? According to President Trump, we are not yet, but soon could be,

if Iran does not agree to a nuclear deal. But of course, the U.S. is involved in basically

every event around the world. So President Trump's statement to me sounds less like

disinterested analysis and more like a threat, more like a negotiation from the man who wrote The Art of the Deal.

There's a new story out from Reuters reporting that President Trump has been restraining the Israelis

by vetoing a plan to assassinate Iran's supreme leader, which likewise strikes me less like a

news report and more like a negotiation and a threat as if Trump is saying,

hey, Mullahs, I told the Israelis not to kill you, but don't test my patience. I could not tell

them that too. Pundits and activists on both sides of the aisle are fuming over this war.

On the one side, you've got the hawks, screaming that Iran is five

minutes away from building a nuclear bomb, and the fate of the world rests on our glassing Iran right

now. On the other side, you got the doves, screaming that this war is nothing more than a fight

between two dusty countries in the Middle East, one of which is

dragging us against our will into war. And as usual, the people in politics who are screaming

their heads off don't know what they're talking about. They're wrong. That's a good rule of thumb.

If someone's screaming his head off, it probably doesn't have the tightest grip on reality.

This war is not about what anybody seems to think.

It's about.

So we will get into what it is.

I'm Michael Knowles.

This is the Michael Knowles show.

I'm Michael Knowles. Welcome back to the show.

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